Net Amateur & Net Club Team Championships

August 28, 2004

Pelican Point Golf Club- Links Course

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Round 1 Recap

PRESS RELEASE
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YODER AND COURVILLE TIED FOR LEAD AFTER FIRST ROUND OF LOUISIANA GOLF ASSOCIATION NET AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Gonzales, Louisiana August 28, 2004

Lake Charles? Julius Courville and Johnny Yoder of Metairie both shot Net scores of 4-under par 68 on Saturday to lead after first round play in the fifth annual Louisiana Golf Association Net Amateur Championship at Pelican Point Golf Club in Gonzales. Courville, who plays with a USGA Handicap Index of 12.0, shot a Gross score of 81, while Yoder, playing with a Handicap Index of 10.6, shot a Gross 80. One shot back with 3-under 69s heading into Sunday?s final round are Randy Indovina of Baton Rouge and Ricky Norwood of Lake Charles. Indovina had a Gross 80 with an Index of 10.0, while Norwood shot Gross 75 with an Index of 5.5. Two time champion (2000 & 2001) Tom Pollock of Baton Rouge (Gross 89) shares a five way tie for fifth at Net 2-under par 70 with Isaac Rogers of Baton Rouge (Gross 81), Justin Doles of Bush (Gross 80), Raymond Blank of St. Amant (Gross 89), and Darrell Gerald of Baton Rouge (Gross 95).

The leaders will go off in the final two pairings on Sunday, at 9:27 and 9:36 AM.

This is the fifth annual Net Amateur Championship conducted by the LGA. The LGA is attempting to provide a true Championship event for the higher handicap player, with procedures in place to assure that consistency and integrity are benchmarks for the event.

The Overall Net Amateur Champion will be the individual that returns the low net score for 36 holes. The LGA is utilizing the USGA Tournament Score Probability Table to adjust any handicap indexes where a player?s score exceeds normal probability. In addition to the Overall Net Championship, the field is divided into 4 flights with the top 3 finishers in each flight also receiving awards.

In the concurrent LGA Net Club Team Championship, the team from Pine Shadows GC in Lake Charles leads Hebert Municipal GC from Lafayette by fifteen strokes heading into Sunday?s final round of play. This is the second year that the LGA has conducted the Net Club Team Championship in conjunction with the Net Amateur. Four players represent a club and the best three of four Net scores are totaled to create the Club Team score for the day. The team with the low 2 day total will take a beautiful crystal trophy back home to their club as the 2004 LGA Club Team Champion.

This year?s Championship is again being played at the Links course at Pelican Point GC in Gonzales, just southeast of Baton Rouge. It is playing to a par of 72 over approximately 6,600 yards. Saturday?s play was conducted in calm, humid conditions under overcast skies.

Flight leaders after 18 holes are as follows:

St. Andrews flight:
Marty Chapman/Lafayette 71
Ed Shobe/Baton Rouge 76
James Hamilton/Lafayette 76

Prestwick flight:
Johnny Yoder/Metairie 68
Randy Indovina/Baton Rouge 69
Ricky Norwood/Lake Charles 69

Troon flight:
Julius Courville/Lake Charles 68
Ellwood Simoneaux/Rayne 71
Carl Lemaire/Lake Charles 72
Don Hoffman/New Orleans 72

Carnoustie flight:
Darrell Gerald/Baton Rouge 70
Raymond Blank/St. Amant 70
Tom Pollock/Baton Rouge 70

All Scores and Sunday?s pairings and starting times to follow:

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Louisiana Golf Association